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Summary: Cutting the fabric, gluing the top, and securing the grommets for a sewing project. Learn how to sew outfits for kids in this free crafting video.
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Shelly Cordsen Shelly Cordsen has been sewing and crafting for years. She offers classes around the Southwest demonstrating many different advanced techniques. Cordsen is co... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi I’m Shelly Cordsen with Expert Village. We are finishing up our Levi pocket organizer. We’ve got everything glued in place and if I do say so myself this does pretty much represent me, with all my little lace and Victorian type stuff. Now we are going to work towards grommets. Grommets are just very enlarged eyelets and if you’re a scrap booker or you do anything like that, eyelets are small and we are going to jump to a just to a bigger, thicker, heavy duty eyelet is what I call it. So first off we're going to mark two inches in on each side for our grommet placement. And just kind of eyeball it, put a little mark. Now for grommets you have what we call a small stem and a large, which it’s kind of hard to see but you've got to have enough hole for those to go into. So I am going to dig with my scissors where I put my mark and we're just kind of going to shove that in there. And then you just have to cut some of that fabric away. Ok, the big tall end will come in from the bottom and you've got to move all that fabric away from there and you may have to cut some of it away. The problem I’m having right now is I’ve glued this shut and I’ve got the glue coming into my eyelet. So you want to move all the fabric away so you can see that whole metal come through. And there we have it. And you’re going to lay it down on a hard surface and you’re going to put the smaller one on top of that. And actually what we should have done is we should have gone, you have to come from the front. You want the really nice side to be from the front. So I’ll flip this over get all the fabric out of the way, the smaller one on top and just fits right over that. Your tool, you’re just going to stick that round edge on top of there and then we start hammering. And it's fastened down and you'll do that again on this other side and then we'll get ready to hang a hanger on it.
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